GreatDane's Free Stuff!

Babies Online - Have you got a newborn in the family? Then check out this free birth announcement service for new parents. They offer free Web pages announcing births, so that faraway families can share in the bragging. They also feature a monthly baby-related contest for prizes such as blankets, etc.
CatalogFinder - This hefty site offers a large roundup of mail order catalogs from around the world, covering 245 product and service categories. The catalogs are free in "98 percent" of the listings. You can browse through the listings and request print catalogs or shop directly online
Free tax forms - Tax time is approaching. This site will save you a trip to the post office. All types of tax forms are here and available for output on your printer. Tax forms are included in the following file types: PDF, PCL, PostScript and SGML text.
Online Backup - PC Help.Net is offering free online backup for your files. Just upload your files to their server. Then, if you lose a file, you can return to this site to retrieve it. You get 100 megabytes of space. There's no need to use an FTP client; all you need is a Web browser. They offer 24 hour access.
EBook Central - This site carries a large selection of free electronic books in Adobe PDF format. Categories include Spirituality; New Age; Eastern Philosophy; Health & Healing; Paranormal; Self-Help; Science & Alternate Technology and more.
Hot! Coupons - Do you love to save money? Are you physically incapable of entering a supermarket without clutching a handful of coupons? Then this site is for you. Just enter your ZIP code and find local coupon offers that you can print out.
The itList - The Web's first online bookmark manager. Are you tired of having one set of bookmarks at the office and another at home? Or maybe you're at a friend's house and want to show him or her a killer site you saw, but you can't remember the site's address. itList puts your bookmarks where you can always access them.
Free TV show tickets - Have you ever wanted to attend a live taping of a TV show like "Jeopardy" or "Wheel of Fortune"? This site is offering free reserved TV tickets. You can make your reservations online and then order and print your free tickets.
WinTune 98: Tune up your computer online - Get a free computer on-line check-up with this nifty service (Note: only Internet Explorer users can use use it). WinTune 98 lets you test your PC's performance by simply clicking through a series of Web pages. If WinTune detects serious configuration or performance problems, it will describe the problem right on the Web page. Once you have completed the tests, you can compare your results to those of similar systems in the site's database.
Webmonkey Browser Tuneup - The Webmonkey tuneup will test your browser for everything essential to your Web experience, including frames, Java and a "few good plug-ins."
Jurassic Punk - There are many sites on the Web where you can get free video clips, movie trailers, film clips and animation videos. But this site is the only one you need to bother bookmarking. This massive, hugely-popular site offers clips from every significant silver screen release. So download a few clips here and then play them back with this free screen saver utility. Ain't the Web wonderful?
Free Bible Study Course - Word of Life Cyberchurch is offering an "accredited College Level Bible Study Course." As a student completes each segment of the program, he or she is given credits toward a certificate given at the end of the course.
Alta Vista's Translation Assistant - Have you ever seen a Web site in another language and wondered what the heck it was saying? This free service provides you with a tool to translate a grammatically correct Web page or other document into something comprehensible (but not perfect; as it's done by computer).
Epage Classifieds - There are many free classified ads sites on the Web but this is one of the few worth bookmarking. All private party ads are free here and they're cross-posted to the newsgroups, as well. All ads may have one picture uploaded. There's also an account management page where you can see info on your ads, bids you have made (on auctions), etc.
M*SPOT - Are you into multimedia? Then click over to this outstanding site right away that deals with all facets of free multimedia goodies. Areas include free 3D tools, free multimedia software, free fonts, free Java, and much more.
Internet Traffic Report - Why is the Net so slow today, you may be wondering? Click over to this site and get the details. Find out if the bottleneck is just in your area or global. The Internet Traffic Report measures the performance of major Internet routers around the world hourly.
Unpublished books - This site is offering free exposure for unpublished authors, writers, poets and other purveyors of prose. They will post a sample of your work online for one month for free.
The Dreamtime - This site offers free numerology readings, free numerology compatibility readings, free books and other content related to the earth, spirituality, and culture.
Free Online Creativity Course - This site is offering a course in practical creativity. New lessons are posted monthly.
Iguana Den - This site is looking for people to adopt iguanas. Their preference is people in the NY/NJ area, but they'll consider people outside this area, provided they pay shipping costs, via Delta Airlines.
The Pic of Pics - This site is offering a unique free service on the Web: free photo manipulations. Imagine being "seen" in a photo with whoever you want. Be "seen" with movie stars, politicians, models and anyone else you can imagine!
Make your own greeting cards - This Swedish service offers a way for you to easily create your own greeting cards and other personal/business greeting cards. You may also create a type chart or a calendar. Just type in your input and within a few seconds you'll get back a PDF file, ready to output on your printer.
3-D For Free - Have you ever wondered what your favorite photos would look like in 3-D? With this service, you can find out! Just send them your picture files and they'll render them in 3-D. Now all you gotta do is find some of those cheesey blue & red 3-D glasses!
Free Scanning Service - CyberScans is offering a free scanning service. Just fill in their order form and your photo will be scanned and posted within two working days and the location of your scanned photo will be E-mailed to you.
Smartbooks.com A place to get free books which are "raffled off." All you need to do is select the book, click on the title to go to the signup page, and enter to win.
Free Web calendars - This service is offering free Web calendars to non-homophobic community groups who wish to publicize local events.
Astrology: your romantic destiny - See what the stars have in store for your relationship with "Real Astrology," a site offering free horoscopes.These horosopes, by the way, are witty, humorous and fun to read! The on-site horoscopes are free, but if you call them, there's a $1.99/minute fee.
Zodiac Forecasts - Here's another astrology-related site that's offering free horoscopes. By Jonathon Cainer, in association with Britain's "Daily Mail" newspaper.
Software training courses - This site offers free downloads of over 25 computer training courses (over 3,500 pages worth!) Topics covered include operating systems, Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint and Lotus applications. These may be viewed, downloaded and printed in their entirety, and range from a simple introduction to DOS and personal computers to a 500 page technical `Supporting Windows' course.
Coollist - A one-of-a-kind service, Coollist is a Web-based system that allows users to create free mailing lists on the Coollist server. The Coollist system is easy to use and is accessible from anywhere in the world. Even when you are not on your own PC. This is the only free service of its kind on the Net that we've seen, which offsets the two complaints we've heard about Coollist: that service can be slow at times and that sometimes your messages will be sent out more than once.
HeadHunter.NET - Useful employment site that offers free service. Claims to be bigger than Monster Board. Posting and searching jobs and resumes is free. HeadHunter.NET will even cross-post listings to Usenet, all for no charge.
AdOne Classified Ad Searcher - Tell "Ad Hound" what you're looking for and this free service will search for your request in the classified ads of over 400 newspapers, across the U.S. Results are then mailed to you.
Free legal forms and agreements - This site offers free forms ranging from contracts and will that you can print out and use.
PriceScan - A free service that takes the hassle out of finding the best price on thousands of computer hardware and software products. PriceScan shows you the vendor with the lowest price plus other vendors' prices.
Themes 'n Schemes - Great site for free Win 95 Themes. And no, you don't need Microsoft Plus! to use these themes as there's a great shareware program called Desktop Themes (a 100K file) that'll install themes on your system, which you can get here.
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Short Circuit Electronics - Click over to this site to get free advice on VCR repair. They can also help you get a good estimate of what it'll cost to fix and how you can avoid getting ripped off.
Free cartoons - This site offers royalty-free cartoons, suitable for publishing in newspapers or magazines. Color, one-panel, cartoons by a Canadian cartoonist. Large versions for print quality. 5 new ones a week (over 300 in the site's archive).
A List of Free Open NNTP Usenet Servers
Free Fax service. - Not sure how much longer this service will be around---it allows you to send a free fax within a certain covered area.
Faxaway - Give these people your E-mail address and you'll be able to take a "test drive" of their service (i.e., send a free fax).
Psychic Choice - Free on-line tarot game, E-mail newsletter and chat seminars in psychic development. In addition, this site offers a chance to win a free 13-week tarot class and a free tarot deck. Enter to win free personal psychic readings too; there are winners daily.
Center of the Universe - For a limited time, these folks are offering a free scan. Just send `em a photo; they'll scan it and E-mail it to you.
Free telephone bill audit - If you have long distance calls totaling $150 or more (not including taxes) you can get a free telephone bill audit at this site.
SoundCentral - If you'd like to spice up your desktop (or your Web site) with sounds, this is the place to go. This site offers tons of free WAV and MIDI sound files, keyboard samples, audio programs for all platforms. And as long as you're going to be downloading some sounds, you might as well grab yourself a copy of the free utility program called 16 Tons. This program runs as an icon, and it will play your WAV and MIDI files that you drag and drop on it. Neat!